by | Nov 1, 2019
Hirschsprung disease is a congenital affliction in which babies are born with a bowel that lacks nerve cells to control movement along the gut. The only option for treatment is to surgically remove the affected part of the bowel. But about one-third to one-half of...
by | Nov 1, 2019
When the world’s first ‘test-tube’ baby, Louise Brown, was born in 1978, it was heralded as the dawn of a new era for infertile couples. By using donated eggs, sperm and/or surrogates, they could at last become parents.But the new era has not been such a simple matter...
by | Nov 1, 2019
“Better have your baby before you’re 37” is advice that Professor Kui Liu of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology likes to give his students in a light-hearted manner. The line draws a laugh but everyone in the room knows that this statement is no joke.A...
by | Nov 1, 2019
The more things change, the more they remain the same, as Dr Carol Tsang of the Department of History has discovered. Her area of research is women’s health and reproduction in Hong Kong and China, and her female students and acquaintances keep reminding her that...
by | Nov 1, 2019
It’s not called labour without reason. The effort of pregnancy and giving birth, and then raising children, has been termed ‘reproductive labour’ by social scientists like Dr Gonçalo Santos of the Department of Sociology and Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and...
